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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-smoking-northern-ireland-order-2006/article-10",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2006/0110800427",
  "legislation_title": "The Smoking (Northern Ireland) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-smoking-northern-ireland-order-2006",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Fixed penalties for offences under Articles 7 and 8",
  "text": "(1) An authorised officer of a district council who has reason to believe that a person has committed an offence under Article 7(5) or 8(2) on premises, or in a place or vehicle, within the district of the council may give him a penalty notice in respect of the offence.\n(2) A penalty notice is a notice offering a person the opportunity to discharge any liability to conviction for the offence to which the notice relates by paying a penalty in accordance with this Order.\n(3) Schedule 1 makes further provision about fixed penalties.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110800427/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:20:00.062069+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}